Green fantasy would drive us all to red ruin
THE reaction to the federal Budget from both Labor and the Greens would indicate they want to ensure Australia becomes a nation of innumerate bludgers.
Piers Akerman
The handbag hit squad fails to show respect
CURRENT and past world leaders and senior diplomats have paid generous compliments to foreign minister Julie Bishop for the tireless work she put in to win unanimous backing for the UN resolution calling for “full and unrestricted access” to the MH17 crash site.
Lorded over by the left’s black knights
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott’s quirky segue into the quaint realm of official orders caught many by surprise. But the howls of derision from the opposition benches and the usual clattering of Labor acolytes within the ABC and Fairfax media were as hypocritical as they were confected.
Court of international opinion shames Moscow over MH17
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin suffered his first defeat in the court of international opinion when Russia joined in the unanimous adoption of a UN Security Council resolution demanding access to the wreckage of MH17 shot down over eastern Ukraine.
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1000 for 1 is still a bad deal
Swapping 1027 Palestinian criminals for 1 Israeli soldier might not represent great value for the Israelis at first glance but then the Palestinians are receiving the scum of the earth and the Israelis are righting a wrong.Again, the Palestinians do not place much value on human life, let alone the lives of their own citizens.
Bring on the Last Supper
Prime Minister Julia Gillard had union boss Paul Howes and assorted ALP and union officials to dinner Tuesday at Kirribili House, my colleague Simon Benson reports in The Daily Telegraph.Howes, the head of the AWU, came sharply into focus last year when he stupidly appeared on national television claiming he had a role in the political assassination of the sitting prime minister, Kevin Rudd.
Carbon tax is like a stink bomb in a very small car
Despite the kisses, the high-fives, the back slapping and the phony bon homie which accompanied the passage of the Labor-Green-independent carbon dioxide tax last week an overwhelming majority of voters think it stinks worse than rotten egg gas.
Plucking heartstrings of political one-upmanship
THE sound of the instrumental now known as Duelling Banjos conjures up images of ruthless, toothless, inbred hillbillies from the creepy 1972 film Deliverance.
World-wide web of terrorist treachery
IT would seem a huge fetch to tie accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, US-born terrorist recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki, al-Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan and a renegade US army major in a web with a Sydney mosque, but there is a clear link.
Labor and friends long for 1984
Time to stop passing the parcel
JULIA Gillard has absolutely no one to blame for the failure of her government’s people smuggler legislation but herself. Try as she might to shift the blame to the High Court, or to Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, she is the author of this disaster.
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